For Academy voters, it’s time to get serious about watching movies.
Do they have the right to see all the films before the voting starts on December 12? (for 10 of the shortlisted categories) and Jan 12 for the other categories? Not exactly – at least not in the Academy Screening Room, the members-only online platform that has become the main way for studios to put their films in front of Oscar voters.
The following voters are currently able to watch “The Banshees of Inisherin” In the screening room but not “The Fabelmans.” “Tár” They are available, but “Women Talking” It isn’t. You can. “Everything Everywhere All at Once” “Top Gun: Maverick,” But not to “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” Oder “The Whale.”
On Tuesday, Thanksgiving night, nearly two dozen new films were added. There were 119 movies in the Academy Screening Room. It is a private online space for Oscar viewing that members can only access. Only 10 of the 27 movies that were nominated for Best Picture on the Gold Derby site received votes.
New films are typically added every Friday, so that number could change on Black Friday unless the unusual Tuesday batch is this week’s only addition. Although the Academy Screening Room claims to have 121 films, it also includes an additional 124 movies. “Voting Explainer” (Video and 2-minute pitch.
Since years past, Thanksgiving has been an official deadline for film studios participating in the Oscars race. Daily packages of DVD screeners would arrive at the homes of Academy and guild voters in the days leading up to the holiday, with the studios and campaigners clearly thinking that these film professionals would be home and maybe taking time off over the long weekend, so it’d be a good time to give them a lot of movies to watch.
The screenings are being sent on to certain guild and critic voter, who have in the past few days received DVDs. “The Fabelmans,” “Women Talking,” “She Said” “Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio,” Among others. But streaming links have for the most part taken their place, and it’s now against AMPAS rules to send DVDs to Academy voters, whose main way to watch contending films has become the ASR (though one would like to think that they’re all going to screenings, too).
But the screening room isn’t free: The Academy $20,000 to host a film there, with a price break available to low-budget films. (That’s cheaper, they say, than producing and mailing screener DVDs to the 10,000 members or 9,000-plus voters.) You don’t have to pay for screening in separate rooms dedicated to documentary, international, or animation films. All film which qualifies is posted automatically.
Members can watch the Oscar nominees and the following films are among them “Everything Everywhere All at Once,” “The Banshees of Inisherin,” “Top Gun: Maverick,” “Tar,” “Elvis,” “The Woman King,” “The Son,” “Aftersun” “Decision to Leave.”
“Avatar: The Way of Water,” which has yet to screen for any voters, is understandably absent from the screening room, as is Damien Chazelle’s “Babylon,” Although it’s just starting to screen, the film clearly was intended to be seen on large screens. A few films are also missing from theaters currently: “The Fabelmans,” “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever,” “Glass Onion,” “She Said,” “Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio” “Till.”
Among strong awards contenders that aren’t yet in theaters, Sarah Polley’s “Women Talking,” Darren Aronofsky’s “The Whale” and Sam Mendes’ “Empire of Light” They have not yet made an appearance in the screening area. “Triangle of Sadness,” “Living” “White Noise.” Alejandro G. Inarritu’s “Bardo, False Chronicle of a Few Truths” is in the separate screening room devoted to the Best International Feature Film category but not in the main room, while another of Netflix’s international contenders, “All Quiet on the Western Front,” It is both.
A remarkable 35% of ASR films is made by documentary films. Another 10 percent are animated films and the nine international entries take up the remaining spots. That makes sense, considering the strong track record in international film competitions for the main Oscar categories.
These are 100 movies currently shown in the Academy Screening Room.
“Aftershock” (documentary)
“Aftersun”
“All Quiet on the Western Front” (international)
“All That Breathes” (documentary)
“All the Old Knives”
“Amsterdam”
“Argentina, 1985” (international)
“Armageddon Time”
“Athena”
“The Automat” (documentary)
“Bad Guys” (animated)
“The Banshees of Inisherin”
“The Batman”
“Beba” (documentary)
“Bitterbrush” (documentary)
“Blonde”
“Breaking”
“Brian and Charles”
“Bros”
“Bruiser”
“Call Jane”
“Catherine Called Birdy”
“Cha Cha Real Smooth”
“Charlotte” (animated)
“Close” (international)
“The Corridors of Power” (documentary)
“Corsage” (international)
“DC League of Super Pets” (animated)
“Descendant” (documentary)
“Decision to Leave” (international)
“Doctor Strange”
“Dog”
“Don’t Worry Darling”
“Downton Abbey: A New Era”
“Elvis”
“Emergency”
“Emily”
“Emily the Criminal”
“Everything Everywhere All at Once”
“The Exiles” (documentary)
“Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore”
“Fire of Love” (documentary)
“Freedom on Fire: Ukraine’s Fight for Freedom” (documentary)
“Gabby Giffords Won’t Back Down” (documentary)
“Good Luck to You, Leo Grande”
“Good Night Oppy” (documentary)
“The Good Nurse”
“The Greatest Beer Run Ever”
“Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, A Journey, A Song” (documentary)
“Holy Spider” (international)
“Hustle”
“In-Uoh” (animated)
“The Inspection”
“Is That Black Enough for You?!?” (documentary)
“Jacir”
“The Janes” (documentary)
“A Jazzman’s Blues”
“Killing Me Softly With His Songs” (documentary)
“Lady Chatterly’s Lover”
“Last Flight Home” (documentary)
“Lightyear” (animated)
“Loren & Rose”
“Louis Armstrong’s Black & Blues” (documentary)
“A Love Song”
“Luck” (animated)
“Marcel the Shell With Shoes On” (animated)
“Marry Me”
“Master”
“Mr. Malcolm’s List”
“Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris”
“Montana Story”
“Moonage Daydream” (documentary)
“My Father’s Dragon”
“My Policeman”
“Navalny” (documentary)
“Nitram”
“Nope”
“The Northman”
“Nothing Compares” (documentary)
“Nothing Lasts Forever” (documentary)
“The Outfit”
“Pearl”
“The Quiet Girl” (international)
“Retrograde” (documentary)
“The Return of Tanya Tucker Featuring Brandi Carlile” (documentary)
“Return to Seoul” (international)
“Riotsville, U.S.A.” (documentary)
“Sea Beast” (animated)
“Saint Omer” (international)
“Salvatore: Shoemaker of Dreams” (documentary)
“2nd Chance” (documentary)
“Selena Gomez: My Mind & Me” (documentary)
“Sidney” (documentary)
“Sirens” (documentary)
“The Son”
“Sr.” (documentary)
“Stutz” (documentary)
“Tár”
“Tell It Like a Woman”
“The Territory” (documentary)
“Three Minutes—A Lengthening” (documentary)
“Thirteen Lives”
“Thor: Love and Thunder”
“Three Thousand Years of Longing”
“Till”
“Top Gun: Maverick”
“Turn Every Page – The Adventures of Robert Caro and Robert Gottlieb” (documentary)
“Turning Red” (animated)
“The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent”
“Vengeance”
“The Voice of Dust and Ash” (documentary)
“Wake Up”
“We Are Art” (documentary)
“Wendell and Wild” (animated)
“Where the Crawdads Sing”
“The Woman King”
“The Wonder”
“X”
“You Won’t Be Alone”